Eve Ensler Quotes
The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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I've been on sets my whole life.
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I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Michael Johnson, so I'd say they are my favourites.
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The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
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The self is just our operation center, our consciousness, our moral compass. So, if we want to act more effectively in the world, we have to get to know ourselves better.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.
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Entrepreneurship is really hard and painful - I'm not sure I'd recommend it for anyone who can't handle the extreme stress.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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Standing up to Ahmadinejad is not a partisan issue and should never be one.
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I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.
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Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.
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'Fiji can make a similar report on the US on all those issues. Our report would be far worse than the US state department's report on Fiji.' (2 March 2005, reacting to a US State Department report critical on the state of race relations in Fiji).
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Cause when you're fifteenAnd somebody tells you they love you,you're gonna believe them.And when you're fifteen,Feeling like there's nothing to figure out,Well count to ten, take it in.This is life before you knowWho you're gonna be,You're fifteen.
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The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.
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We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but we should add that the exercise of power itself creates and causes to emerge new objects of knowledge and accumulates new bodies of information. ... The exercise of power perpetually creates knowledge and, conversely, knowledge constantly induces effects of power. ... It is not possible for power to be exercised without knowledge, it is impossible for knowledge not to engender power.
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It's often hard to remember that the personal computing era is still quite young. It only dates from 1977, with the arrival of the first mass-market PCs.
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People everywhere have the same needs and values. They need a place to live and a job. Beyond that, they may need to sell stuff or get a mate.
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The only point of having power it seems to me is to empower others. The only point of leadership is to inspire.
